Aaron P. Jones Aurora, Colorado 25+ years The short version

I build the infrastructure AI runs on, and the AI that runs on it.

25+ years on all three sides of this market: service provider, technology partner, and enterprise customer. Carrier-grade networks and national-scale facilities underneath, and multi-model AI systems on top of them now.

The arc, in five moves

1997 to 2005 Built the platform layer. Led the architecture team on AT&T's IMS wireless core and on U-Verse, unifying IPTV, voice and broadband on a single IMS platform, at Alcatel-Lucent.
2005 to 2016 Promoted through five roles to Vice President at CenturyLink, now Lumen. Responsible across a national physical estate, repositioning a legacy architecture as a future-proofed blueprint and converging TDM onto distributed IP, and served as technical subject-matter expert on the Qwest and Embarq acquisitions.
2016 to 2024 Ran solutions engineering for major accounts at Calix, accelerating fiber to the home and the managed Wi-Fi experience riding on it. Brought an operator's experience to a reinvention already in motion toward an AI-driven cloud-native platform, where the subscriber experience turned proactive instead of reactive. Take rates and NPS moved for the ISP, their customer got a simpler experience: both sides won.
2024 to 2025 Recruited to Speedcast to unify a fragmented global managed services operation and own systems engineering end to end: architecture, project engineering, project management and activation, made rinse-and-repeatable at global scale for product and operational efficiency, while LEO constellations led by Starlink made satellite connectivity cheaper, broader and more unified than the traditional model.
2025 to now Held VP-level product segment P&L for the large enterprise, hyperscale and neocloud segment at Lumen, moving enterprises onto AI-ready NaaS. Now technical strategist at Kerzie.ai, building the layer above.

The highlights

35% YoYEnterprise migration onto AI-ready NaaS, inside 8 months, plus 75% month over month
~$145MIncremental ARR converted onto committed multi-year platform agreements
$400M+Global managed services and systems engineering unified across GEO, MEO, LEO and terrestrial
$453MInitial multiyear investment behind a brand-new fiber ISP, awarded as a single-vendor solution
4,200+National scale, and a legacy asset base repositioned as a future-proofed blueprint to evolve toward a more unified carrier, broadband last-mile access and edge compute network that optimizes services and applications
US 9,882,833Co-inventor, patent on intent-based orchestration, 2018, before agentic had the name

What I am doing right now

Technical strategist at Kerzie.ai, an AI venture studio. Architecture, model selection and the builds themselves, multi-model across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and DeepSeek.

Back Cover gets existing sites ready to be read by machines rather than rebuilt, because customers stopped searching and started asking. TrueSeat replaces the hiring resume with an evidence-backed dossier. SMB-OS puts a whole small business into one view and runs it with agents.

What I am after

The seat. Not purely an executor's. An influencer's, at the intersection of the infrastructure and the applications that ride it, where the art of the possible stays grounded in what the physical layer will actually do and an end-to-end view surfaces growth nobody was counting. Strategic in delivery and strategic as an adviser, against the top line and the bottom line both. In practice: an executive seat influencing AI infrastructure strategy across the paradigms it spans, data centers, platforms, and logical service models like Network-as-a-Service, with a real voice in envisioning what those become at their potential.

Strategic, not tactical. Setting the motion and the platform economics rather than running plays designed elsewhere.

And the multiplier. I am a mentorship person and not casual about it: career coaching, sharpening someone's own value statement, shaping the charter they work inside. The job of a good leader is to produce better leaders than themselves. So the seat can take more than one shape, and team size is not a filter either way. I have run organizations of 25, 30, 55 and 73 people, and several of those leaders now run larger teams than I did.

Phoenix and Arizona are the target. Denver metro or remote US works.

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